FAVBKa05 Concepts in media theory and history II: Technology and technique in media history

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Anna Batistová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Sat 13:20–16:35 C34
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course offers a basic overview of the history of cinema and audiovisual media technology, and approaches to the technological history of cinema and audiovisual media. Beside the methodological and theoretical questions concerning technology, science and society, the lectures will focus on, for example, theories of technological change, social construction of technological artefacts, and theoretical approaches to technical reproduction and the nature of film and audiovisual registration in relation to reality. The main aim of the lectures is to broaden the understanding of the technological culture inside cinema or audiovisual media as well as inside wider social context.
Main objectives:
to gain a basic overview of the history of cinema and audiovisual media technology;
to understand methods of research of technological history and to familiarize essential theoretical approaches;
to see technological culture in relations to cinema and audiovisual media in general and in broader social context.
Syllabus
  • Cinema as a field of technology.
  • History of the technological research of cinema and audiovisual media.
  • Essential terms and concepts.
Literature
  • ENTICKNAP, Leo. Moving Image Technology. From Zoetrope to Digital. London: Wallflower Press, 2005, 280 pp. ISBN 1-904764-06-1. info
  • Technology and culture, the film reader. Edited by Andrew Utterson. London: Routledge, 2005, x, 152. ISBN 0415319854. info
  • CHERCHI USAI, Paolo. Silent Cinema: An Introduction. London: British Film Institute, 2000. info
Assessment methods
Lectures and reading.
Written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: Předmět se vypisuje jednou za 3 roky, další termíny jsou: jaro 2008, jaro 2011, jaro 2014 atd.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2006, Spring 2012, Spring 2015.
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